1 00:00:03,200 --> 00:00:05,760 Speaker 1: Cooking is a big part of this time of year, 2 00:00:05,840 --> 00:00:09,680 Speaker 1: and tamalis reign as the big star in our community 3 00:00:09,760 --> 00:00:10,640 Speaker 1: during the holidays. 4 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:13,800 Speaker 2: Lots of people and families coordinate one day to. 5 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:17,959 Speaker 3: Do a big tamalara, cooking dozens upon dozens of tamalis 6 00:00:17,960 --> 00:00:20,520 Speaker 3: for family members to enjoy all season long. 7 00:00:20,680 --> 00:00:23,320 Speaker 4: I know this for certain. Every household that day has 8 00:00:23,360 --> 00:00:25,239 Speaker 4: one role. If you don't help, you don't get a. 9 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:29,000 Speaker 1: Bag of tamalis because it is a labor intensive process. 10 00:00:29,320 --> 00:00:33,320 Speaker 3: Enjoy this special clip from last season when we honored. 11 00:00:32,960 --> 00:00:39,440 Speaker 4: The tamal opened this bag right now there. 12 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:45,159 Speaker 3: This is this Latina owned small business based here in 13 00:00:45,320 --> 00:00:49,040 Speaker 3: La called Tamalesca. 14 00:00:49,560 --> 00:00:52,280 Speaker 4: Oh my god, I can smell it. Wait, this is 15 00:00:52,280 --> 00:00:55,200 Speaker 4: in La. This is and I had. 16 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:00,760 Speaker 1: I love raha so rajas are I usually think they 17 00:01:00,760 --> 00:01:01,400 Speaker 1: were alapeno. 18 00:01:01,480 --> 00:01:03,760 Speaker 4: They're not the poblano slices. 19 00:01:04,080 --> 00:01:05,720 Speaker 2: And then we also have. 20 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:10,000 Speaker 1: Oh I love, which is pork, which is what I 21 00:01:10,120 --> 00:01:11,399 Speaker 1: usually eat in Texas. 22 00:01:11,480 --> 00:01:15,039 Speaker 4: Is that what you guys? Well, deer dear dear Sea. 23 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:17,959 Speaker 1: I know we do deer tomalis and we do pork, 24 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:19,360 Speaker 1: tomullies and bean. 25 00:01:19,880 --> 00:01:22,480 Speaker 4: We do beans. Is what you make here? We I 26 00:01:22,520 --> 00:01:25,280 Speaker 4: made everything here. I did chicken beef bean. I did everything. 27 00:01:25,319 --> 00:01:26,679 Speaker 4: I do everything, and so. 28 00:01:26,640 --> 00:01:28,679 Speaker 2: This is just the mall on the corn husk. 29 00:01:28,760 --> 00:01:32,200 Speaker 4: It's very red, super red. So this is obviously the 30 00:01:32,280 --> 00:01:32,959 Speaker 4: carn one. 31 00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:34,959 Speaker 2: I think it's the carnita one. 32 00:01:35,040 --> 00:01:38,399 Speaker 4: Usually the red ones are the pork. Yeah, worn this 33 00:01:38,800 --> 00:01:41,080 Speaker 4: massa obviously a savory massa. 34 00:01:41,360 --> 00:01:43,640 Speaker 2: Yes, savory massa. 35 00:01:44,440 --> 00:01:47,600 Speaker 4: I've never seen red is when they get confused in 36 00:01:47,640 --> 00:01:49,720 Speaker 4: the bag. You don't know what you're gonna. 37 00:01:50,320 --> 00:01:55,520 Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, these are I've never seen red red rajas. 38 00:01:55,560 --> 00:01:57,960 Speaker 1: By the way, these are huge compared to the ones 39 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:00,520 Speaker 1: I made, really big, just relicious. 40 00:02:01,160 --> 00:02:04,720 Speaker 4: That's just amazing. So mm I look at the cheese. 41 00:02:05,400 --> 00:02:13,480 Speaker 1: Mm hmm it's super yeah mm hmmm. Yeah. So I like, 42 00:02:13,760 --> 00:02:15,160 Speaker 1: I'm very picky about my tamalis. 43 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:18,240 Speaker 4: I don't. I like the massa meat ratio to be 44 00:02:18,960 --> 00:02:21,639 Speaker 4: sixty forty. Okay, I like more meat. 45 00:02:21,720 --> 00:02:26,280 Speaker 1: I like more meat too, So I think sixty mesa. 46 00:02:26,440 --> 00:02:28,799 Speaker 3: These are actually really good. I have to say, I'm 47 00:02:28,840 --> 00:02:30,800 Speaker 3: not like the malis are not my jam. 48 00:02:30,919 --> 00:02:33,200 Speaker 4: Oh no, my jam they're my jam. 49 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:35,760 Speaker 3: I know I know that they're like. I didn't grow 50 00:02:35,800 --> 00:02:38,240 Speaker 3: up making theamalis. We always had them. I lists around 51 00:02:38,440 --> 00:02:41,600 Speaker 3: we would buy them from the Tamalero or gift the 52 00:02:41,680 --> 00:02:44,440 Speaker 3: world be giftages. We always had them, I List and Roska. 53 00:02:44,480 --> 00:02:46,800 Speaker 3: They're always the malist, but we never made them. I 54 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:49,600 Speaker 3: want to hear about your tradition of making them. But 55 00:02:49,720 --> 00:02:52,080 Speaker 3: I am going to tell you these are amazing. These 56 00:02:52,080 --> 00:02:54,720 Speaker 3: are really really good, and the massa is super flavorful. 57 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:56,840 Speaker 1: The mass is really Sometimes you get the malags where 58 00:02:57,280 --> 00:03:00,160 Speaker 1: massa is just the thing that's holding in the filling. 59 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:01,920 Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's a little massa. 60 00:03:02,240 --> 00:03:03,600 Speaker 2: All right, So now we're gonna taste. 61 00:03:03,919 --> 00:03:04,960 Speaker 4: So this one must be. 62 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:13,639 Speaker 1: Which is white's Is that what it means to be aca? 63 00:03:14,480 --> 00:03:16,400 Speaker 2: She's keeping us on our toes. 64 00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:20,040 Speaker 4: This so normally your pork, themalas are the red or 65 00:03:20,040 --> 00:03:20,560 Speaker 4: the red ones. 66 00:03:20,600 --> 00:03:23,240 Speaker 3: Yeah, so now she's just doing something completely different. 67 00:03:24,360 --> 00:03:26,880 Speaker 4: Oh, that's a lot of meat. It's a lot of 68 00:03:26,919 --> 00:03:32,320 Speaker 4: massa too. Mmmmm. You can tell these underneathas have been 69 00:03:32,320 --> 00:03:35,400 Speaker 4: cooked for a very long time. Wow, so much flavor 70 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:39,000 Speaker 4: this massa. Again, this massa is white, so it doesn't 71 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:41,440 Speaker 4: have chili in the massa like the other. 72 00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:41,760 Speaker 1: Yeah. 73 00:03:41,880 --> 00:03:43,800 Speaker 4: These are huge, by the way, they are. 74 00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:47,760 Speaker 3: This meat is amazing, this feeling, it's all about my God, 75 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:51,520 Speaker 3: it's the Sometimes the massa it's too. 76 00:03:51,720 --> 00:03:55,520 Speaker 4: Dense, too dense, This one's not. This is nice and soft. 77 00:03:55,280 --> 00:03:58,520 Speaker 3: It is, and it's not Sometimes that the dope competes 78 00:03:58,560 --> 00:04:01,119 Speaker 3: with the filling. Yes, you can only taste one thing 79 00:04:01,160 --> 00:04:03,840 Speaker 3: and there's like a sad little strip of chicken or whatever. 80 00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:07,040 Speaker 4: This is like the perfect ratio. It's a good ratio, 81 00:04:07,440 --> 00:04:08,800 Speaker 4: so so flavorful. 82 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:12,040 Speaker 1: You're right, the masa has a personality as well as 83 00:04:12,080 --> 00:04:14,280 Speaker 1: opposed to like just holding in the filling. This massa 84 00:04:14,320 --> 00:04:17,960 Speaker 1: is really good. No, we're not sharing that, no way, 85 00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:22,280 Speaker 1: are you kidding? We already finished them, by the way. 86 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:24,720 Speaker 1: Fun fact, I don't know if you do this because 87 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:28,160 Speaker 1: we're both Texicans. But I eat my the mileage with ketchup. 88 00:04:28,360 --> 00:04:34,640 Speaker 4: No I do wrong. It is like, what is wrong 89 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:35,000 Speaker 4: with you? 90 00:04:35,080 --> 00:04:36,560 Speaker 1: And I was like, I think it's a Texas thing 91 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:37,640 Speaker 1: and my friends in Texago. 92 00:04:37,680 --> 00:04:42,520 Speaker 4: No, it's an Eva thing. I can't eat it without usually. 93 00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:44,839 Speaker 1: I cannot eat it without dipping it in ketchup. Really, 94 00:04:44,920 --> 00:04:47,200 Speaker 1: I know, I know, I know. I'm not must be 95 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:52,560 Speaker 1: like a childhood. I'm not Mexican enough. Every year it 96 00:04:52,640 --> 00:04:56,960 Speaker 1: was a sacred day before Christmas, and we'd make hundreds 97 00:04:57,040 --> 00:05:01,839 Speaker 1: of dozens, hundreds of because it was all my aunts. 98 00:05:02,560 --> 00:05:04,560 Speaker 4: My aunt was a caterer too, so she would make them. 99 00:05:04,760 --> 00:05:06,640 Speaker 3: She the one that makes Do you have her recipe 100 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:09,080 Speaker 3: for cookie that you only make like hundred people? 101 00:05:09,279 --> 00:05:10,640 Speaker 4: Yeah, five hundred people. 102 00:05:11,760 --> 00:05:15,600 Speaker 1: So we would make one hundred dozen and my mom 103 00:05:15,640 --> 00:05:18,799 Speaker 1: would get twenty dozen and my aunt would get twenty dozen, 104 00:05:18,839 --> 00:05:20,640 Speaker 1: and so they all got So she's like, you can 105 00:05:20,640 --> 00:05:22,160 Speaker 1: sell them, you can eat them, you can freeze them, 106 00:05:22,160 --> 00:05:24,200 Speaker 1: whatever you want to do. But like we're dividing the 107 00:05:24,279 --> 00:05:27,320 Speaker 1: labor evenly as we divide the tomaw like it was 108 00:05:27,320 --> 00:05:27,640 Speaker 1: a whole. 109 00:05:27,800 --> 00:05:28,920 Speaker 4: Counting was a thing. 110 00:05:28,920 --> 00:05:31,400 Speaker 1: My aunt was like, no one too, three for five, twelve, 111 00:05:31,440 --> 00:05:36,599 Speaker 1: one to five, Like she was really a stickler. How 112 00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:40,839 Speaker 1: many you get to take home? If you participated in 113 00:05:40,880 --> 00:05:42,279 Speaker 1: the day, you got to take the home? 114 00:05:42,720 --> 00:05:45,560 Speaker 2: Did you have did everybody have a roll? 115 00:05:45,680 --> 00:05:47,560 Speaker 4: Like did you have a specific role? I was a 116 00:05:47,560 --> 00:05:48,200 Speaker 4: good spreader. 117 00:05:48,440 --> 00:05:51,440 Speaker 3: You were a spreader so always so as when you 118 00:05:51,440 --> 00:05:52,719 Speaker 3: get all dormally, still spreader. 119 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:54,640 Speaker 4: Yeah, because the spreading is the most important. 120 00:05:54,640 --> 00:05:58,279 Speaker 1: Like we said, masa to filling racial Yeah, so rolling 121 00:05:58,320 --> 00:06:01,080 Speaker 1: in and folding him is the easiest part of my 122 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:02,599 Speaker 1: sister to do that because they're not as good. 123 00:06:02,720 --> 00:06:03,479 Speaker 4: I find that hard. 124 00:06:03,480 --> 00:06:05,320 Speaker 3: When I've tried to make them a list, they always 125 00:06:05,520 --> 00:06:06,760 Speaker 3: I always. 126 00:06:06,640 --> 00:06:10,440 Speaker 4: Have like it's the size of your husk. Maybe it's 127 00:06:10,480 --> 00:06:10,920 Speaker 4: too big. 128 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:12,360 Speaker 3: I don't know, I don't know what if you are 129 00:06:12,400 --> 00:06:14,680 Speaker 3: like rolling it and then if they fall. 130 00:06:14,640 --> 00:06:17,520 Speaker 4: Apart, like I'll show you this year, you'll have to 131 00:06:17,520 --> 00:06:18,760 Speaker 4: show me. I'll show you this year. 132 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:20,440 Speaker 2: So are you still the spreader? 133 00:06:20,720 --> 00:06:22,760 Speaker 1: This is I'm still the spreader. I'm the spreader and 134 00:06:22,800 --> 00:06:26,200 Speaker 1: I'm also the quality check spreader. So as we pushing 135 00:06:26,240 --> 00:06:28,000 Speaker 1: down the line, I'm like, what what is that one? 136 00:06:28,160 --> 00:06:32,200 Speaker 1: Send it, I reject out, spread it more, go lower. 137 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:35,600 Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm like, that's my job. 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